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This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

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If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

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Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

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Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder.

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It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: Unknown

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