Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?