When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.