God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

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.

The faithfulness of God is forever sure.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

It's called the Infinity Effect.

In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.