If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.