Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.