There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

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.

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?!

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.