"But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication."
— David James Duncan

"But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches."
— David James Duncan

"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back."
— Anne Lamott

"What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?"
— Anne Lamott

"We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it."
— C.S. Lewis

"Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith."
— Ann Patchett

"The summit is not the only place on the mountain."
— Laurence Gonzales

"Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. "
— Brian McLaren

"It’s a matter of growth, of deepening, and an ever growing surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts"
— J.S. Porter

"But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open."
— Anne Lamott

"my eyes blurred wetly with hot tears"
— Joe Simpson

"If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! "
— Leo Tolstoy

"With us it’s not how little we understand, but rather, it is how little we know that we don’t understand."
— Phil Zylla

"Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?"
— Annie Dillard

"If you’re going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all wrapped up in one"
— J.D. Salinger

"What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is."
— Dallas Willard

"People are tired of homogenous, fluffy groups."
— Colleen Carroll

"College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus"
— Peter Jenkins

"He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence."
— Jack London

"if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis."
— Susan Howatch

"Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part."
— Philip Yancey