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.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

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

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.