Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

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.

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.