Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

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.

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.

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

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The light within ignite the spirit of my soul.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.