The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

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.

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

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.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.