Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

History belongs to the intercessors

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

To worship is to remember Who owns the house.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.

The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to its basic structures.

Love starts when peace begins.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

I don't like the term 'voice-over.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.