Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Embrace your dreams ... If you wanna be a hero, you gotta have dreams.

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Dream your dreams and go all out there to achieve it.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not.

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.