Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

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.

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

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

The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

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