In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

Percy was not feeling the love.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.