What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.