What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)