I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Man doth not live by bread only.

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.