Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Your reputation is what others think of you

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

When you close to me, my heart has created a vibration of the precise "Carrier frequency" to send all deep information about me to you

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.