The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Poetry is a wild water that flows as furious river from "spring" in the summer.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.