Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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 their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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 rather than loving.
The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God’s will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country, a reflection of God’s lover’s quarrel with all the world.
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
I asked an 85 year old professor, ‘What makes you cry?’ He said, ‘Whenever I see or hear the truth.’
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.
In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.
You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.
Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don’t really know.
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
Love, in its purest form, is biology.