While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

My daughters been picked up so many times she's starting to grow handles

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.