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Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.