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 no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

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

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.