...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.