Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!

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

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.