In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

The ones who choose to constantly make excuses and the people who are persistently working on their goals, all have twenty four hours in a day.

A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Whether you're going through fear, whether you're going through pain, or whether you're going through anything, love is the best healer and the most powerful thing in the world.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.