“The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.”

“Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.”

“Self is the soul minus God. ”

“That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.”

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.”

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”