When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

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.

You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.

Be the solution, not the problem.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!