Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.