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

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.