Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

A thinking man can never be brave.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

America has the power, but not the will to fight terrorism. The terrorists have the will, but not the power to fight America, but all that could change with time.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange