If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.