Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.