In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

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.

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 litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.