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

You don’t play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

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

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

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

I don’t just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.

I am especially fond of you.

I don’t need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It’s not my purpose to punish it; it’s my joy to cure it.