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The success of a ministry depends more upon one's capacity to relate and to care, than [on] one's theological background.

— Morton Kelsey

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I learned that all people can be touched, with genuine caring and understanding.

If humankind is open to another dimension of reality, then the dream may be one of the most common avenues through which God reaches out to us.

Dreams: A Way to Listen to God (1971)

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

The Other Side of Silence (1995)

Man cannot remain well psychologically, let alone socially, if he loses contact with the unconscious and its symbolic and mythological life.

Myth, History & Faith (1974)

The greater the man, the more subject he is to the ravaging effects of the negative side of this reality.

Myth, History & Faith (1974)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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