Compassion and Justice

"Mr. al-Megrahi did not show his victims any comfort or compassion … but that alone is not a reason for us to deny compassion to him and his family in his final days." —Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill

Al-Megrahi, former Libyan secret service agent who has prostrate cancer and only three months left to live, "is the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988." —CBC News

Happiness and Goodness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell

Dead People Live

Jesus did not come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people live.

--Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola

Honesty vs. Abandonment

"When we are honest with God, when our souls have been laid bare, and we experience his acceptance, the fear of abandonment subsides."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.38

Weakness and Strength

The paradox here is that God's strength is realized upon the admission of weakness. In other words, the homosexual tendency becomes the channel of God's strength once submitted to him.



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 95.

Simple Acceptance

"Grace heals our shame not by trying to find something good and lovely within us that is worth loving but by looking at us as we are, the good and the bad, the lovely and the unlovely, and simply accepting us."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.38

Power and Battle

One does not become empowered solely in isolation; that power becomes fully realized in battle.



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 93