I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

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.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

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.

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.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.