...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst..

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologic….

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God..

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking..

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes ….

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legal….

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see..

Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established "r….

God comes to you disguised as your life..

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of pr….

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach..

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who….

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself..

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order..

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom..

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart..

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self..

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt ver….

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world..

The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never fo….

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us..