The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.