If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

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.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.