Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.