They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself.

The folly isn't mine. It's God's folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

You are a beloved child of God.

What we believe about God is crucial because it affects what we believe about everything else.

People have lost faith in God and the Kingdom of God because they have put God in the wrong place. If they put God in the right place, in their own heart, the spiritual crisis will come to an end. This is a spiritual and a cultural matter. In the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions there are people who have discovered that God does not belong to the future or to another place.

Hope deprives us of everything that is not God, in order that all things may serve their true purpose as means to bring us to God. Hope is proportionate to detachment.

In all the situations of life the "will of God" comes to us not merely as an external dictate of impersonal law but above all as an interior invitation of personal love. Too often the conventional conception of "God's will" as a sphinx-like and arbitrary force bearing down upon us with implacable hostility, leads men to lose faith in a God they cannot find it possible to love.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.

Instead of telling yourself you can't have the happy ending, why don't you let go of all your dreams—and your fears—and let God show you how it ends. He's the master of happy endings—let him figure it out." She

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.