Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Scars are your greatest medals in life.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

Novelists never have to footnote.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night