Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

I am too old to think.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.