The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.