Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

These devices only became very popular after all of this technology was hidden behind a red button that did it all

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.