During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
I think we d like life to be like a train. . but it turns out to be a sailboat.
Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.