“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men ac...”

“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around i...”

“Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.”

“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pri...”

“My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.”

“In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.”

“Next time, involve me in what youre planning. How had I gone so easily from feeling excluded to doing the excluding? Did I dislike the reminder that I hadnt always been on the inside looking out? W...”

“Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.”

“And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in th...”

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equ...”