It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

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.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.