The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

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.

She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

I cannot get close to any you.

A narcissism shared by two.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.