“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”

“I'll not forget that day nor the message of the Christian church that we celebrate each death as an Easter, each dying as a living, each soul, no matter how poor or sinful, as the child of royalty. At its best, the church treats people as beings of eternal worth, no less at their dying than at their birth, no less in their sins than in their virtue, no less for one than for another.”

“Courage is not about being unafraid...Courage has to do with moving forward in the face of fear.”

“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”

“There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.”