“In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.”

“What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are and who we will become.”

“[God] loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our rsum but because we are His children. He loves every o...”

“As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.”

“Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, ...”

“Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.”

“Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men”

“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers ...”

“Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . is a pious lie”

“Sometimes salvation is found in agony.”

“There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”

“Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.”