. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

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.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul