Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it’s my job to put them there.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.--Havana Red

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.