We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.