The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

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

I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.

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.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

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.

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion.