I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.

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.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always in the state of grace.