“Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.”

“Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.”

“If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.”

“Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.”

“We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.”

“It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.”

“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”

“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.”

“Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching its pinnacle in altruism, a love that needs nothin...”

“PAUL: ...Were a very close family. We dont take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.”