“O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to pray: "Your will be done." O please protect him whom my soul lives! -From the journal of Diet Eman”

“Attention, God the Judge, God the Father, who Art in Heaven, give me one miracle, please. If You exist as I know You do, even if no one else in the world believes in You, please give me a brain tumor. Please tear my limbs from their sockets and let the backseat and my older sister be totally covered with blood. Please make me dumb and blind and deaf, please make me a martyr, please, dear heavenly Father. Tear my heart right from my chest. Drive spikes into my eyes and let hot lava shoot out of my mouth. Make me silent and thoroughly dead, but please hurry. Before we get home, before we reach the next stoplight, let the only sound be no sound, the silence of my death burning in the empty sky. If You are a mighty and true God, if You are not just a dream I have made up, please, before another hour, another minute passes, let the wire in my bra poke through my heart. Dear Lord, please, please, give me this one miracle. I have begged You every day, every evening, so please, let Your will be done, let Your will be done. Give me a gruesome death as fast as You possibly can. Thank you, God. Amen.”

“Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?”

“When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.”

“Crown Of Love They say it fades if you let it, love was made to forget it. i carvedyour name across my eyelids, you pray for rain i pray for blindness.if you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love is not upon me.if you still want me, please forgive me, because the spark is not within me.i snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom.the only thing that you keep changin' is your name. my love keepsgrowin' still the same, just like cancer, and you won't give me astraight answer!if you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love has fallen from me.if you still want me, please forgive me, because your hands are not upon me.i shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom.the pains of love, and they keep growin', in my heart there's flowersgrowin' on the grave of our old love, since you gave me a straightanswer.if you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love is not upon me.if you still want me, please forgive me, because the spark is not within me.it's not within me.it's not within me.you gotta be the one. you gotta be the way. your name is the onlyword, the only word that i can say!”

“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”