The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

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.

Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.