Quotes from Jim Forest

Henry David Thoreau, by no means the most conventional man of his time, lamented on his death bed, "What demon possessed me that I behaved so well." He would have taken comfort in Holy Fools. They remind us of a deeper sanity that is sometimes hidden beneath apparent lunacy: the treasure of a God-centered life.

Prayer is love-centered. It is not so much belief in God that matters, but love of God, and similarly love of others, including love of enemies.