Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

We think abortion is a bad thing.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.