Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Transformed people transform people.

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.