There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

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.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.