“Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.”

“One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: "God is closer to sinners than to saints."This is how he explained it: " God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin you cut the string. then God ties it up again, making a knot-and therby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string-and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.”

“closer than a touch on your skin,deeper than a breathe you draw in;stronger than a hurricane wind,is the dwelling of God within.”

“She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke,(she did not mind that)a fortune,(she did not mind that)the safety and circumstance of married life,(she did not mind that)but life she heard going from her, and a lover.”

“Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.”

“I realized that I needed God more than I needed rescuing. I needed to draw closer to Him in the storm more than I needed to be taken out of the storm.”