Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

When she looked at him with those dark eyes, Nassar felt the urge to say something intelligent and deeply impressive. Unfortunately, nothing of the kind came to mind.

To become a true Master of your Days and Nights you need to master your Dusks and Dawns at the same time.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.