One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.