One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

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

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

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.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

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