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.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

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

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.