There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.