Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.