Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate.