Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.