One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

Healing comes through God's work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.

Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

Worship is the launching pad for life.

Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul...Tis my sunshine right after the rainWhen my ravishing rays unfold.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.