“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ”

“Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.”

“The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.”

“If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)?”

“Through His grace God has dealt bread to the hungry and clothing to the poor. At various times in our lives that will include all of us, either temporally or spiritually speaking.”

“Thank God for our illusions, it gives us the rest of hope, and the rest of consolation”