God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.