A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.