In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

Without you everything falls apart. Without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

We weren't trying, but we were definitely practicing - and not safely practicing.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.