There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.
People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.
The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.
I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough
I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
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