“We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.”

“Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”

“Freedom...is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.”

“When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...”

“We sometimes have a tendency to bring God to our level, rather than allowing God to enlighten us by bringing us to God's level.”

“The reason we can assess people so rapidly is that we compare what we see before us with a set of previously established stereotypes - expectations based on what we have been told and what we have gained from past experience. Usually there is some element of truth in these stereotypes but they can also be misleading.”

“God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been”