It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

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.

I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

I believe Hillary [Clinton] should be the president. I believe having her and her husband in the White House is what the country needs .

I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.