Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

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.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

I got born in the wrong family.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.