Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.