A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh:One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky, Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

If the spirit does not move me, I move the Spirit.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.