Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.