Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.