“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”

“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”

“Let us die trying.”

“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.”

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

“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”

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