The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.