As long we insist on writing our own stories, he cannot write his living will onto our hearts.

If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

...that word which GOD... has written on the brow of every man: hope!

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

The mysterious character of providence, which does not stop at simply steering things "in general", but precisely pursues the individual, that which is distinguished from everything else, and dwells in the whole confusing particularity of the world.

But then, in the midst of exile, there came promises of return, of a continuation of the interrupted history. There arose a vision of a mysterious person who would expiate the people's guilt on their behalf. And now Jesus' knowledge reaches beyond the "house left desolate", for he goes on: "You will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

God's role is to give us the vision to know what we need to do, to bless us with the qualities of soul that we will need in order to do them ourselves, no matter how hard they may be, and to accompany us on that journey.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

Events do not reflect God's choices. They happen at random, and randomness is another name for chaos… And chaos is evil; not wrong, not malevolent, but evil nonetheless.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.