Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

No matter how small you start, always dream and think BIG. If you start with small thoughts then you will stay with small thoughts.

I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.