Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.