The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.