Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

In the end you only answer to yourself!

We may switch presidents, but we're just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.