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.
We call on all members of America’s religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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 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 honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
Unity is not something we are called to create; it’s something we are called to recognize.
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation.
We put our best foot forward, but it’s the other one that needs the attention.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.