I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.