“We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.”

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

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

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!

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

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

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”