Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

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.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.