I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.