Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Nothing in life is ritual.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

I am especially fond of you.

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’