A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

People wish for good dreams I wish people don't dream of me.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.