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

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

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

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.