“Was the challenge truly impossible, or was that in fact a product of my attitude? And if I had to make something impossible, the odds are that it wasn’t and it is not.”

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

“There is freedom like forgiveness.”

“Captivated by the Truth of God, the witness must only declare the wonderful works of the Holy One.”

“Only acknowledged your sins, God is merciful to forgive you.”

“There is no force like faith in God.”

“Only acknowledged your sins, God is mercy to forgive you.”

“The most difficult thing is not the belief in the infinite. No. The most difficult thing of all is to believe that the infinite would be so grand and gracious as to reside in the smallness of us. That is what requires the greatest faith.”

“If I’m not willing to accept a God who does the impossible, I’m left with what’s possible. And that takes me no further than myself.”

“It is my passion to rise to great heights, but instead I dig holes where I plummet to great depths. And when will I learn that God trades shovels for wings?”

“Faith is not whittling God down to a size that I can comprehend. Rather, it’s whittling my need to control down to a size that God can intersect.”

“Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business.”

“Brilliance without prayer is like a car with four flat tires. It might be a truly fine vehicle, but it isn’t going anywhere.”

“I have plenty of faith, but more often than not it’s faith in the belief that faith doesn’t work.”

“I project my limits on God when faith would say that I should be projecting His limitlessness on me.”