If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.