There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

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.

For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Too bad I love you, you'd be dead by now

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.