There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

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.

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.