If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

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

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.