The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego shell has been smashed either by great suffering or by great love or by both.

Transformation is often more about unlearning then learning.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Having looked at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one, nor any particle of one, but has reference to the Soul. – Walt Whitman.

You never become humble except through fully accepting humiliations – usually many times.

The Holy Spirit is God desiring in you and through you – until it becomes your desiring too.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have – right now.

It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again – but now on a new level.