The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

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.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.