Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.

Doctors, lawyers, and psychologists study to become qualified professionals who are paid to know what to do. A well-trained theologian or minister is only able to point out the universal tendency to narrow God down to our own little conceptions and expectations, and to call for an open mind and heart for God to be revealed.

Trust is to allow for hope.

Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.

When we look for divine solutions in others, we make others into gods and ourselves into demons. Our hands no longer caress but instead grasp. Our lips no longer kiss or form kind words but bite.

When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place. Jesus asks us to move our hearts to the center, where all other things fall into place.

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."

To pray means to stop expecting from God the same small-mindedness which you discover in yourself.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.