Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

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.

Never focus on achieving your goals, focus on achieving the behaviors and beliefs that will help you achieve your goals

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.