Caring for the Sick and Elderly: A Parish Guide Book

Enjoyed this book about allowing God's Spirit to invade our hearts. Some of my favorite quotes include:
"I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him."
"After all, people weren't hungry for fancy sermons or organizational polish. They just wanted love. They wanted to know that God could pick them up and give them a second chance."
"Because I had been a basketball player, it never dawned on me to evaluate people on the basis of color. If you could play, you could play. In America it would appear that there is more openness, acceptance, and teamwork in the gym than in the church of Jesus Christ."
"Each service is two to two-and-a-half hours long. We have always felt we had to give the Holy Spirit time to work; we couldn't rush people through some kind of assembly line."
"Yes, the roughness of inner-city life has pressed us to pray.... But is the rest of the country coasting along in fine shape? I think not."
"I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons."
"What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?"
"If the times are indeed as bad as we say they are; if the darkness in our world is growing heavier by the moment; if we are facing spiritual battles right in our own homes and churches, then we are foolish not to turn to the One who supplies unlimited grace and power. He is our only source. We are crazy to ignore him."
"We are like the church at Laodicea. In fact, we have so institutionalized Laodiceanism that we think lukewarm is normal."
"The apostles weren't trying to finesse people. Their communication was not supposed to be 'cool' or soothing. They aimed for a piercing of the heart, for conviction of sin. They had not the faintest intention of asking, 'What do people want to hear? How can we draw people to church on Sunday?' That was the last thing in their minds. Such an approach would have been foreign to the whole New Testament."
"Spiritual 'construction' that uses wood, hay and straw comes easy--little work, little seeking, no travail, no birthing. You just slap it up and it will look adequate--for awhile. But if you want to build something that will endure on Judgment Day, the work is much more costly."
"People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off."
"As we open up our church meetings to God's power, they will not always follow a predetermined schedule. Who can outline what God might have in mind?"
"Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful."
"Anytime people get hungry to truly know the Lord, the Holy Spirit quickly puts a shovel and broom into their hands."