Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.