If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

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

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.