Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

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.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.