Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

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.

Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts.

We have art in order not to die of life.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.