If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

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.

Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind.

A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.

Never say: "Who cares?!" Because there's always someone that cares. You.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.