We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.