My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

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

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

"So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you. The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I am good not know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it."

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.