There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

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.

I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.

Of all things I liked books best.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Perception is a powerful tool.