True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

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.

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.