To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

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

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

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

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.

Transformed people transform people.