The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by 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.

Fear is the killer of a great future life.

Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

I challenge myself to take at least one fashion risk a day, otherwise I get stuck.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!