Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.

The world needs people who save lives.

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.