“If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.”

“Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action...”

“As the theologian Alan Jones has said:One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases...”

“The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.”

“Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.”

“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the mu...”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”

“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”

“We live in an environment in which sexuality is often trivialized and defiled, stripped of its emotional depth and divorced from its sacred root.”