The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I really need to restructure my life so I can spend more time reading abstracts and less time punching dinosaurs."- Atomic Robo

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

I love watching a movie that is smart, that makes me think, that includes me as an audience member, and I especially love it when I know that the people that I'm working with also do that.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.