The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.

The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened in Germany, as well, as in compassionate care for the most vulnerable members of society, as Mother Teresa did. In both approaches theology - what one believes about God and human life - matters. The world desperately needs that good news.

Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature but "up" to God, who consistently calls us forward to become the people we were designed to be. A confused world urgently needs a model of what that looks like. If Christians fail to provide that model, who will?

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.

Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

I am a gorgeous woman. That's not me being egotistical or narcissistic. It's just a fact, I'm a knockout.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

My pheromones and my chemistry and the way I walk - I am divine feminine energy.

I'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can.

I'm really into the fact that I could walk into any room and snatch any man in there like it's nothing.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

I think Yara Shahidi is amazing.

I have confidence and je ne sais quoi. That is unmistakable.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

I started modeling before '1992,' and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had been modeling for a little bit.

I'm not aloof at all.

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

I don't even know how I became cool.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

I'm from Harlem.

I don't think many people have met someone like me. I don't think the world gets to see too many women like me, and I enjoy being that woman.

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a prototype or person they're compared to.

I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.

I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

I actually didn't own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

Alexandria Ocasio? I think she's dope.

I'm loud, I'm super comedic about my life, and I always try to look for partners who are the same about theirs, and with that I just try to always find a partner who I can have a laugh with who completely understands me before I begin to share anything.

I'm very 'nothing-bothers-me,' laissez faire. Everything works for me.