I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .