Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pr….

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the ….

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that a….

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker..

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship..

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic….

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind..

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. R….

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence..

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love.

May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience t….

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the futur….

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leav….

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve..

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence ….

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with..

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and….

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit..