Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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

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 unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-