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• Love is in the giver, not the gift.
• Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to…
• The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the…
• Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.
• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
• Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
• It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work…
• It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
• I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
• In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far…
• Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than…
• Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

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