Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.