Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

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

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.