What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.

We must pray with expectant heart.

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

A like may not necessarily mean real impact has been made

Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.