time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

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.

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong.

If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

God is the process. The process is what I Am... You cannot not use Me... If you use Me with awareness and with intention, all things will change.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.