We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

And 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

Making money isn't hard in itself, what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.