Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

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.

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.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.