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

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

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

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

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