Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.

True peace is the condition of the heart that trusts God regardless of the circumstances.

It's our responsibility to determine to use our sound minds, hold fast to the Scriptures, and refuse to budge from God's truth.

Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

Relax. No one else knows what they're doing either.

Religion's greatest trick wasn't making some people believe there was a God, it was telling you you shouldn't ever ridicule the ide, that it was sacred, to question this dogma> And of course it's not. As a scieentist,philosopher and comic that is something that is really important to me. NOTHING is sacrad.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.