Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

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