“In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.”

“Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.”

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head
but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair”

“We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years.”

“Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."”

“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”

“[Foxes have] their dens and birds have their nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest.”

“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”