If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.