I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

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.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.