Saints cannot exist without a community

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Wishing gets you nothing.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.