The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

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.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

See it, feel it, trust it!

You matter. Your heart matters.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

My voice is still the same and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh mon Dieu when I think what I might be able to do with it!

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.