The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

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.

Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

There's no way out of here.

I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.

I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.

A modest woman has good children.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.