“Build a little community of those you love and who love you”

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

“You must build your life around those who love you.”

“What kind of life would that be, to build up so much love for a person who cared so little for you?”

“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.”

“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.”