The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

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.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

It's a human instinct to be known.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.