Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.