When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

They had grown up on shame

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit of love and a spirit of courage will be your constant companion.