"The only lasting freedom from self-consciousness comes from a profound awareness that God loves me as I am, not as I should be. He loves me beyond worthiness and unworthiness. He loves me in the morning sun and the evening rain without caution, regret, boundary, limit or breaking point; that no matter what I do He can't stop loving me. When I am really in conscious communion with the reality of the wild, passionate, relentless, stubborn, pursuing, tender love of God in Jesus Christ for me, then it's not that I've got to or I must or I should or I ought; suddenly I WANT to change because I know how deeply I am loved." Brennan Manning