The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The first instinct is love.