We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

We're all in this together ... alone.

What an incredible drug fear is.

Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.