To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.