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

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

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.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

If you have to cry, it's okay. I'll cry with you.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!