Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

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.

No guts, no story.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.

He paused and manufactured a chuckle.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.