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.

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

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

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

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'