The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love..

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without..

Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians se….

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of….

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. L….

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation..

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 hi….

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not hono….

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

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system..

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind..

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds..

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 mu….

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's….

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, national….

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings..

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental….

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices..

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

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones..

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You ….