If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you’re not sure you’ll make it to second base. You’ve let go of one thing and haven’t yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.
Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God.
Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, “Do not be afraid.” Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
The journey never happens alone.
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.
You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.