The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

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.

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.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Find a need and fill it.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.