May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

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.

If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, “It’s all yours—please keep it beating.

I learned that forgiveness isn't an instant thing

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.