Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

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.

Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

Believe the best of everybody.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.