A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

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

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

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

The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

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