Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

I don't think that God is a person, a great big person in the sky. I think that God is the essence of life that shapes and forms itself in a thousand different ways, in a million lifetimes, that can be used and focused, and directed and experienced.

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them.

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.