It’s not just dark in Scandinavia.

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.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

Go through life with your eyes wide open and do not react to failures with a burst of negative emotions

Growing Up' ----To become someone, to reach outfor things you have dreamt of.There is nogoing back.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

We can't cut and run.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.