In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

Consciousness is eternal, and it is part of you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.