Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.

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

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

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

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.