too dangeous, too small

Preachers are often long-winded and boring, but the best of them can put things into words better than anyone around. Martin Luther King was one; Mahatma Gandhi was another.

Yesterday, one of our ministers quoted a line from the Yale chaplain — and friend of King's — William Sloane Coffin, who died in April: "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love."