Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.
Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.
