God was in Christ, reconciling the world.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.