Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

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.

I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.