The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.