I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

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

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

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