Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

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

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

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.

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

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.