That which is denied cannot be healed.

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 a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.