Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

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.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I was wounded in the house of my friends.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.