The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

I'm not dreaming this, am I?" he asked.Dehvi lifted an eyebrow. "There's only one way to know for sure, " he said.What's that?"Go piss in the woods. If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up.

I'd be a whale shark. I'd like to be the biggest. The winner. Size is always important.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.