God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

No power is born of hate.All power and authority is born of love.Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!Ask yourselves who and what you love?

You can always win points

No matter who you are, your life is an unwritten story.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.