If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change 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!

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

The ego hates losing – even to God.