In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

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.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.