Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

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.

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.