If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom..

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual..

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you..

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs….

I was taught that pain is bad..

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human li….

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid..

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion w….

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not..

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack..

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone..

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us..

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died..

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth..

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot..

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it w….

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality..

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from….