“Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.”

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.

Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.

There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we’re finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.