We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

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.

Patience is the best medicine.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping

Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.