What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.