“The ends that religious people are willing to go to justify pain, suffering, death and murder as the will of god and all for his glory are mind-numbing.”

“...and then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence...”

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”

“[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.”

“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”

“The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God’s most selfish children would steal God’s greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.Only God has the right to surprise His children with death.”