It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance." the intro from the author

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.