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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
All of life is the exercise of risk.
I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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.
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.
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 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. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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.
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.