She came to faith because she met and talked with someone who made her feel enveloped by God's love.

I promise you, I am not going to crush your spirit, Kate. Why would I, when that's what I love most about you? He kissed her forehead as though she were a child.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

Organic churches, like those in the New Testament, are different. They are not trains, but groups of people out for a walk. These groups move much more slowly than trains—only several miles per hour at the fastest. But they can turn at a moment's notice. More importantly, they can be genuinely attentive to their world, to their Lord, and to each other.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.

Spontaneous expansion begins with the individual effort of the individual Christian to assist his fellow, when common experience, common difficulties, common toil have first brought the two together.

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)