Quotes from Ron Hall

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess - let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are.

It's not the color of our skin that divides our nation; it's the condition of our hearts.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change you life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.