The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

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.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.