Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.