I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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.
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence – reverance for human life and the environment.
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.