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

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

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.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.