Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Love is not even an emotion so don't get emotional over it.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?

Together, we’ll beat autism.