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.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

Faith is accepting that you don't know, and trusting that God does.