Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

All the good are friends of one another.