I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

For awhile, I thought that was love.-Gaara

Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain.

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

The most valuable practice aid is patience.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.