Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

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.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.

An option hides where we don't want it to hide.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I'm too disorganized.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.