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

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

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.

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

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.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

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