Quotes from Richard Stearns

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.