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"We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try."Now count the times it tells us to "trust."

"So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo."

"The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself."

"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

"These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening."

"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."

"Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing."

"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."

"Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?"

"Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us."

"I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong."

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."

"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."

"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."

"Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god."

"They call him Aslan in That Place,"said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself,"said Eustace solemnly."

"God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule."

"If you could really see that tree over there,"Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over.""Really? But why?"asked Arthur. "It's just a tree.""No,"Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine."

"Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence."