We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

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.

Faith is the bridge from the spiritual realm into the physical realm.

We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.