Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

But this room looked like it had been decorated by the unholy lovechild of Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

We have started calling him grandfather.