Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.
The beauty of life is not knowing.
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative. " With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.
You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!