When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.

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.

You have to believe in your dreams.

Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.