For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

there is no such thing as a faithless person.' Faith is an aspect of consciousness. We either have faith in fear or we have faith in love, faith

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of—to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.