Those who think spiritually don’t usually think religiously.

Religions ruin by violence.

It is the most religious who will be most shocked by heaven — “You’re here too?”

Religion is sometimes an opiate and sometimes a pain in the apse.

True religion is relationship not rules.

Some of the great cathedrals collapsed under their own weight, so too the faitful may lose their beauty and fall into ruin. 

Those who think the great religions are alike show how very little they know about the great religions.

Those who say the great religions of the world have nothing in common, show how biased they are in favor of their own limited brand of spirituality.

When a spiritual group becomes a social club, it becomes a handholding for a few people who should know better. But when it becomes an empowered people, it  becomes a love,  justice and freedom for the whole world.

At moments of great public success in helping others, some religious leaders meet a great personal temptation to help themselves. It is as if they can’t stand to succeed in being unselfish.

Heaven won’t be long church: an extended sermon, a lengthy praise set, a perpetual passing of the offering plates. How good heaven will be.

A  signs and wonders liturgy feels most at home for some saints; for others a liturgy that comes closer to our humanity feels safer. Both are needed.

Religions often traffic in truth as if it were medicine. Take two of these; you’ll get better. But who wants more meds? It the beautiful stories that are most curative, not their reduction to dry, hard, pill-like propositions.

Are there religions free from culture? No, they were created in cultures, interpreted in cultures, preserved in a culturs and made redemptive in cultures.

Conflict in the among the spiritual is a by product of diversity as much as it is of hostility.  Hostility simply makes conflict more dangerous.

Abecedarians are seldom contrarians and make poor spiritual leaders.

Does your escatology include the rupture of the saints? Change it, we don’t need any more breaking and tearing in the kingdom?