That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

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.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'