The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

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.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.