The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

If you do not chase success, you will be overtaken by failure.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.