The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

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.

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.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

If your situation is too tough, don´t go back, go forward. You die quicker when you go backward. Die later when you go forward.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.