The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.