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

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.

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

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

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.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.

All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.