The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

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.

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

You'll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you've recovered from the heartbreak

What good are words if no one believes them?

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.