“ . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

“It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.”

“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.”

“We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.”

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”