Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Some women's arms are placed of exile

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.