We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.