Do the truth quietly without display.

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.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?