Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

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.

If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there’s plenty of freedom…

Where's the fun in that?

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

If you choose to concentrate on the dark side, this is what you will see.