“While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.”

“We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches us.”

“Dear God,Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt.”

“I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.”

“Because the egoic mind has led us to feel separate from our immortal Ground of Being over the millennia, we have invented a number of immortality symbols to give us a precarious sense of security and identity in life. Traditionally, these have been religious in character, such as the belief in everlasting life after death, in the West, and the belief in reincarnation, in the East. However, today, it is money that provides the primary immortality symbol. It is our obsession for money that is driving humanity to extinction. For when we do not face our fears with full consciousness and intelligence, these fears will eventually come along to haunt us.”

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

“Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.”