If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

Some people are incapable of judging others. Why? Because they are to busy judging their own insecurities

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God.

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.