No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.