You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.

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

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

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.

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.