God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.

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.

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.