“Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”

“And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.”

“Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”

“I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.”

“We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.”

“The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

“The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money. [...] If something is doing something for us, offering us something, be it gifts, time, popularity, or what have you, we feel they have value, we feel they are worth something to us. I could see it so clearly, and I could see it in the pages of my life. This was the thing that had smelled so rotten all these years. I used love like money. The church used love like money. With love, we withheld affirmation from the people who did not agree with us, but we lavishly financed the ones who did.”