It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

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.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.

Let the experiment be made.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.