I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.