I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

As facing the sea reveals the skyand facing the sky reveals the seafacing my soul reveals your soul

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet