Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

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.

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.