“Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!”

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.”

“We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.”

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

“If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.”

“We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.”