“No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.”

“But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.”

“Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.”

“Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.”

“Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.”

“...If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: h...”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. Its all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isnt conditional. No love is conditional. If love...”

“How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?The Creator didnt make love conditional, Jona said. Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it,...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”