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.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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

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.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

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