“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

“Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in...”

“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo even when it's not working. It attaches to past and pr...”

“Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.”

“The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)”

“Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.”

“War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sa...”

“When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”

“The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln”

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”

“But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.”

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”