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

“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.”

“Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.”

“...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...”

“Trust is the action of faith.”

“It takes grace to know the word of truth.”

“The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.”

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”

“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest th...”

“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourselfyou...”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”