The pressed clay or "dust" of Adam has then become the immortal diamond that is Christ.

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God

It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.

From eighteen to fifty-five was the unfolding. Then, when it happened at fifty-five, they knew what they were born for. When that moment comes, it is great and it is all synchronicity. We know then that grace is at work and we are not manufacturing our own lives.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

Self-worth is not created; it is discovered.

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.

You are not your gender, your nationality, your ethnicity, your skin color, or your social class. Why, oh why, do Christians allow these temporary costumes, or what Thomas Merton called the "false self," to pass for the substantial self, which is always "hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3)? It seems that we really do not know our own Gospel. You are a child of God, and always will be, even when you don't believe it.

If we are created in the image and likeness of God, then whatever good, true, or beautiful things we can say about humanity or creation we can say of God exponentially.

Theologically and objectively speaking, we are already in union with God. But it is very hard for people to believe or experience this when they have no positive sense of identity