The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

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.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.