If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

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.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.