Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever.

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

Always a godfather - never a god!

Form follows function.

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

Knowledge is Life with wings