If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

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

Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.