The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!

Believe and trust in God. He is forever faithful.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Think before you think!

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next