Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.

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.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

What is your specific mission in life?

I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future.