Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life.

The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there, " inside you, waiting to be discovered.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

You want your coach's blessing.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.