Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

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.

Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.