Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.