All of life is the exercise of risk.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.