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

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

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

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked