One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.