I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

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.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

I like Aristotle, but I don’t agree with his cosmological argument about god.

I'm a simple person who hides a thousand feeling behind the happiest smile.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.