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The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.
Do the truth quietly without display.
That which is denied cannot be healed.
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.
In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.
The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.
Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-
We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it
