Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

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.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.