Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.