It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.