Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.