The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.