The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Morality without kindness is the most dangerous weapon.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.