Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.

Don’t focus on miracles, believe and be strong in eternal virtues like miracle.

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.