Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.