Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

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

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.