We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

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.

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

Your lips are so soft and girly. I really must know what you use on them.

The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live?

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.