Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.

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

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

Hitler really wasn't so bad. In the black way.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

I'm a mama's boy above all.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.