We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

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.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

The sun - my almighty physician.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.