Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

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.

Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it.

Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine..

Celebrate your life, this is your only life.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

For f*ck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood" ~Zsadist

I was in choir [at school].

For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.