If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. I find it means you have to dumb down your message to something less radical than the gospel. It can't be the real gospel. It has to be "churchiness" that pleases everyone, so they come back next Sunday and keep putting money in the collection plate. I don't mean that in a cynical way. I just think it's what happens.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The journey never happens alone.

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

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.