God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Art is a subset of creativity.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Practices were tough.

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.