“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“Dylan Jerome,” the lawyer admits, “wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.”

“we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god’s love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.”

“Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)”

“The most important lesson that we’re supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don’t learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)”

“We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.”

“Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.”

“If God didn’t want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn’t go around handing out dreams! That’s a clue! ”

“Anyone who doesn’t fear God, has no idea at all about Him.”

“Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

“Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!”

“There’s a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There’s no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.”

“If that were God’s plan, it’s a bad bargain; I don’t want to have to deal with a God like that…My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he’s gotten used to the things that I’m not capable of and I’ve come to terms with things he’s not capable of…and we care very much about each other.”

“If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.”