God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.