The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

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.

I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in

For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.