It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

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.

It is better to hope than despair.

Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.