Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.