While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

I loved you instantly, because angels can love instantly.

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.