I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

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

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

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.

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.