The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. -(Linc Blaise)

This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.'

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

The Longer You Love, The Longer You Live, The Stronger You Feel, The More You Can Give.

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.