“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

“Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”

“Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it.”

“We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.”