But doubt is not the enemy of faith, a solely destructive force that rips us away from God, a dark cloud that blocks the bright warm sun of faith. Doubt is only the enemy of faith when we equate faith with certainty in our thinking.

Doubting God is painful and frightening because we think we are leaving God behind, when in fact we are only leaving behind ideas about God that we are used to surrounding ourselves with—the small God, the God within our control, the God who moves in our circles, the God who agrees with us.

The way forward is to let go of that need to find the answers we crave and decide to continue along a path of faith anyway (as Qohelet would say). That kind of faith is not a crutch, but radical trust.

I've learned to be fine with not knowing.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.

You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high.

For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.