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

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

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.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

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.

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.