What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Eating is a political act.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.

It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing