Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

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.

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.