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

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.