The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

No one will recognize you unless you had done a thing.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

The fact that we have to discuss reality as though there were no reality is an indication of the confusion of our times.

I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.