Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

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.

All I knew was that in a way I couldn't explain, his hug matched his stare.

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.