It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.