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

“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.”

“Faith reminds us that change is always possible.”

“Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.”

“Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.”

“A budget is a moral document.”

“The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.”