Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love.