Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

I just want to be with you. You're my home. My heart. I love you.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Communism is like one big phone company.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

I experience God as the power of love.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.