It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

The world is made up of words.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.