Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you….

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

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

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love..

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

Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.).

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could..

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives..

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love wh….

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace..

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other ….

I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't on….

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another..

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him..

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's ….

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one t….

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!.

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision ….

Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peac….

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Fa….

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theologica….