We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

and my pack so light I’m sure I’ve left something behind—but only my worry, and only for a moment.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.