Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.
Hope strengthens. Fear kills[. . . ] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.