Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.