“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

“On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church”

“we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear”

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”