Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.