We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

The world needs people who save lives.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.