People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.