My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.