One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

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.

...Every life contains a novel.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.