Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

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.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.