What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.