My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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.

Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.