"May your concept of God be feisty and imaginative and rich enough to incorporate all the hungers of your heart.”  - John O’Donohue

This episode explores criteria to evaluate an authentic spiritual experience. 

“Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one’s own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.”  - Henri Nouwen

"God, my God, God Whom I meet in darkness, with You it is always the same thing! Always the same question that nobody knows how to answer!"  – Thomas Merton 

 “The mystic keeps the God question clean of all our unworthy and inferior answers … Meister Eckhart says the nearer you get to the presence the more God ceases to be God and is allowed to become completely Godself. So the spiritual life is about the liberation of God from our images of God.” - John O'Donohue 

“All-wise. All-powerful. All-loving. All-knowing. We bore to death both God and ourselves with our chatter. God is not to be expressed, only experienced.” - Frederick Buechner 

"Hurt people, hurt people. Free people, free people."  - Cleddie Keith

“When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.” - Lewis Smedes

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.   - Anne Lamott

Matthew's forgotten Beatitude, "Blessed are the flexible, they shall not break."