The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

Why sometimes we don't Trust people? It is either because we don't know them or know them.

The church should become a place of regeneration and reformation

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.