Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

Look up, now look down. Up is endless, down has an ending. Always look up.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.

The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.