“What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!”

“We have a choice in our response to failure. We can condemn or we can learn. All of us fail, but this doesn't mean that we are failures. We need to understand that failing can be a step toward maturity, not a permanent blot on our self-esteem...We don't have to allow failure to prevent us from being used by God.”

“All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.”

“If what we are doing isn't enough for you, I need you to tell me now.”

“God is that, without which, existence does not exist.”

“My soul needs him as much as my lungs need air. So much so that I feel like I’m suffocating just being away from him.”

“In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what they thought usually turned out to be wrong. For another thing, I was insecure enough about my own faith, such as it was, to resent other people telling me what they thought I believed and why they thought I believed it. So I tried to hear what my friends say about joining their loved ones after death without assuming I knew exactly what they meant.”