Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures, then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level.

Most of the things youfind yourself wantingwill have little or no bearingon the happiness in your life.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.