Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.