There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.

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.

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

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

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.