I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.