The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

You ought to give thanks to the Lord.

Despite the modern equipment we sell, it's old money that funds it, and old money doesn't always have a modern brain attached to it.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.