So when people say they don't believe in hell and they don't like the word "sin," my first response is to ask, "Have you sat and talked with a family who just found out their child has been molested?

We crave coming together and connecting with others because this is what the entire universe has been doing for billions and billions and billions of years.

So is it not only that a person has to respond, pray, accept, believe, trust, confess, and do—but also that someone else has to act, teach, travel, organize, fund-raise, and build so that the person can know what to respond, pray, accept, believe, trust, confess, and do?

I felt this new life surging up within me. I don't need people to be anywhere else. I can meet everybody where they are.

Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.