When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

I should hex the IRS.

Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.