I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV