I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

Do the truth quietly without display.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.