On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

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.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.