Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

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

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.