God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

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