I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is completely illegal in here.

The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)