My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

New Year eve is an ecstasy of new anticipation.

I've been to Vancouver every year for the last four years, since 2011 when I came out with Murs.

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.