Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

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.

I walk alone and on my own.

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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.