It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

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 word of God renewed my mind.

Praising God is contagious

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.