God doesn't want to change the world without you.

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.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.