We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

We had to think differently to do what must be done.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.