Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

Deep down, the witness knew then, as he does now, that his testimony would not be received. After all, it deals with an event that sprang from the darkest zone of man. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was. Others will never know. But would they at least understand?

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.

Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

That's why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point is here. It's a library of books about the healing and restoring and reconciling and renewing of this world. Our home.

People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense of identity; they helped give voice to their pain.