The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Belief happens when we place our confidence in God. It is a decision to lean entirely upon the strength of a living and loving Savior.

Jesus wants to make it clear that the God of whom he speaks is a God of compassion who joyously welcomes repentant sinners into his house.

Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home.

He has decided to be our friend — indeed, the word in Greek can be even stronger, our lover — the one who really embraces us and is as close as we can imagine. Very near the heart of Christian prayer is getting over the idea that God is somewhere a very, very long way off, so that we have to shout very loudly to be heard. On the contrary: God has decided to be an intimate friend and he has decided to make us part of his family, and we always pray on that basis.

God—who totally accepts you, no matter what—to help you love and accept yourself.

If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, "Come home, I still love you.

When Jude says, "Pray in the Spirit and keep in the love of God," he expresses the same thought as Paul, namely that the Holy Spirit wants to cherish us in God's love in the same manner that the sun warms us each day.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.