When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

No one has the last word other than God.

I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.