You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

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.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.