Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
And I think that’s what our world is desperately in need of – lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.
Only God is awesome.
We’ve got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back and he’s coming back for a bride, not a harem.
Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: ‘i wouldn’t do what you do for a million dollars.’ She said with a grin: ’me neither.
Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the death of comfort, complacency, sloth, and shallowness that we might witness to your love in life and death. Amen.
It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.
Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
God can use anything, and anyone – even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.