I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

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.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.