Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

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

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

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

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

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.