It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

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.

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

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 seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

Dreams are made possible if you try.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.