One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.