I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.