When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

One of the best years of my life was the very last one of my career. Playing for Rangers was my dream and it meant everything to my family.

That is not good language which all understand not.

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.