Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.

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.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!