1. “It pleases the soul to let, every now and then, the streams to flow – the streams of healing water.”
2. “You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you. And the more you know another, the richer the colors of that relationship.”
3. “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
4. “Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her, with no consideration other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought to their own children, who will inherit their lack of love.”
5. “Rules cannot bring freedom; they have only the power to accuse.”
6. “When your good and evil clash with your neighbor’s, fights and arguments ensue and even wars break out…if there is no reality of good that is absolute, then you have lost any basis for judging. It is just language, and one might as well exchange the word good for the word evil.”
7. “Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value. ”
8. “Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.”
9. “those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control.”
10. “Because you don’t believe. You don’t know that we love you. The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe I am good nor know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don’t know it.”
11. “The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.”
12. “Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”
13. “says that he had a way of pointing out people’s faults and humiliating them while maintaining his own sense of false power and control. Not too endearing.”
14. “I’ve been talking to you for a long time, but today was the first time you could hear it, and all those other times weren’t a waste either. Like little cracks in the wall, one at a time but woven together, they prepared you for today. You have to prepare the soil if you want it to embrace the seed.”
15. “An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.”
16. “When I am your life, submission is the most natural expression of my character and nature, and it will be the most natural expression of your new nature within relationships.”
17. “You were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.”
18. “You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.”
19. “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. —Paul Tournier”
20. “You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.”
21. “It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.”
22. “When all you can see is your pain, perhaps then you lose sight of me?”
23. “The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.”
24. “Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
25. “Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.”
26. “…if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”
27. “Maybe it’s because I’ve never known anyone I could really call ‘Papa.”
28. “I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughter of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters, into my Beloved.”
29. “Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly.”
30. “But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.”
31. “The God who is—the I am who I am—cannot act apart from love!”
32. “Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes whey are the best words the heart can speak.”
33. “But you gotta admit, rules and principles are simpler than relationships.”
34. “you won’t find the word responsibility in the Scriptures.”
35. “when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.”
36. “Mackenzie, judgment is not about destruction, but about setting things right.”
37. “Lies are a little fortress; inside them you feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are justifications for your lies.”
38. “We are not three gods, and we are not talking about one god with three attitudes, like a man who is a husband, father, and worker. I am one God and I am three persons, and each of the three is fully and entirely the one.”
39. “Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.”
40. “Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don’t let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.”
41. “Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.”
42. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
43. “I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.”
44. “you will hear and see me in the Bible in fresh ways. Just don’t look for rules and principles; look for relationship—a way of coming to be with us.”
45. “Images trigger perception, and perception triggers emotions.”
46. “Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . ..”
47. “Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”
48. “I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.”
49. “Am I supposed to believe that God is a big black woman with a questionable sense of humor?”
50. “You don’t play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.”
51. “Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver…to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don’t you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you’ll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not–acknowledges it or not.”
52. “Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to choose to limit oneself – to serve.”
53. “Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don’t ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”
54. “When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.”
55. “Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy.”
56. “But without wisdom, imagination is a cruel taskmaster.”
57. “I am neither male nor female, even though both genders are derived from my nature. If I choose to appear to you as a man or a woman, it’s because I love you.”
58. “Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy.”
59. “If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition; it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.”
60. “Love always leaves a significant mark,”
61. “Don’t forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.”
62. “Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.”
63. “You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want it to embrace the seed.”
64. “Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.”
65. “But your choices are also not stronger than my purposes, and I will use every choice you make for the ultimate good and the most loving outcome.”
66. “Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.”
67. “So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
68. “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.”
69. “the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.”
70. “This always works better when we do it together, don’t you think?” Jesus asked,”
71. “Rights are where survivors go, so that they won’t have to work out relationships,” she cut in.”
72. “Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
73. “You demand your independance, but the complain that I actually love you enough to give it to you. -Papa”
74. “If I take away the consequences of people’s choices, I destroy the possibility of love. Love that is forced is no love at all.”
75. “Emotions are the colors of the soul—they are spectacular and incredible. When you don’t feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.”
76. “I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
77. “I don’t just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.”
78. “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it knows and loves the One who is leading. —Oswald Chambers”
79. “Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot ‘do’ humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.”
80. “Faith does not grow in the house of certainty.”
81. “So when you look at Jesus and it appears that he’s flying he really is…flying. But what you are actually seeing is me my life in him. That’s how he lives and acts as a true human how every human is designed to live-out of my life.”
82. “For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.”
83. “True love never forces.”
84. “Humans have a great capacity for declaring something good or evil, without truly knowing.”
85. “Dreams are sometimes important, you know. They can be a way of openin’ up the window and lettin’ the bad air out.”
86. “Yes. She is creativity; she is action; she is the breathing of life; she is much more. She is my Spirit.”
87. “Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.”
88. “Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide and direct her…Some have attempted to help her, but most have simply tries to use her.”
89. “No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. —”
90. “Mack, that’s because you’re seeing only the institution, a man-made system. That’s not what I came to build. What I see are people and their lives, a living, breathing community of all those who love me, not building and programs.”
91. “Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.”
92. “To force my will on you,” Jesus replied, “is exactly what love does not do. Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy.”
93. “I will use every choice you make for the ultimate good and the most loving outcome.”
94. “But this is a good place to start. I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later. . . when you’re ready.”
95. “Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat……Forgiveness does not create a relationship.”
96. “Love that is forced is no love at all.”
97. “Judging requires that you think yourself superior over the one you judge.”
98. “You are wise in the ways of real love, Mackenzie. So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing. Mackenzie, you love your children, whom you know so well, with a wonderful and real love.”
99. “Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.”
100. “am one God and I am three persons, and each of the three is fully and entirely the one.”
101. “Honey, you’re a survivor. No shame in that. Your daddy hurt you something fierce. Life hurt you. Lies are one of the easiest places for survivors to run. They give you a sense of safety, a place where you have to depend only on yourself. But it’s a dark place, isn’t it?”
102. “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
103. “And the Law that once contained impossible demands — Thou Shalt Not… — actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.”
104. “my love is a lot bigger than your stupidity,”
105. “You… were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around… Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wing and removing its ability to fly… A bird is not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly. Remember this, humans are defined not by their limitations, but by the intentions I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. Love is NOT the limitation; love is the flying. I AM love.”
106. “…humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.”
107. “Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”
108. “Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.”
109. “Sadness is a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran”
110. “I am especially fond of you.”
111. “Remember, the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.”
112. “If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.”
113. “Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”
114. “It’s extremely hard to rescue someone unless he is willing to trust you.”
115. “By choosing to declare what’s good and evil, you seek to determine your own destiny.”
116. “Did I hear God call me an idiot? ”
117. “I don’t need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It’s not my purpose to punish it; it’s my joy to cure it.”
118. “does a soul good to let the waters run once in a while—the healing waters.”
119. “I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
120. “Just because you believe something firmly doesn’t make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly.”
121. “Does freedom means that you can do whatever you desire to? Or we can talk about the borders in that life, which actively reduces your freedom.”
122. “Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
123. “It’s not the work, but the purpose that makes it special.”
124. “Marriage is not an institution. It’s a relationship. Like I said I don’t create institutions that’s an occupation for those who want to play God. So no I’m not too big on religion and not very fond of politics or economics either. And why should I be They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three.”
125. “God’s voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.”
