Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.

But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.