People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

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.

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga’s entire character.

Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.