“It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.”

“I mean that to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people," Paul says. "That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”

“You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.”

“God seems to have disappeared from the horizon, and his word no longer seems a compass guiding our lives, our basic decisions, our human and social relationships.”

“Let's break free from artificial relationships with unfeeling, uncaring, unloving institutions that cannot contain the unpredictable wind of God's Spirit, and focus instead on building soulish connections with real people filled with the breath of God.”

“What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.”

“Tomorrow Belong To You 1. Respect time. 2. Your tomorrow carries the best. 3. Don't rush, Instead maintain the relationship. 4. Trust God for the best.”

“Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? …Sometimes he makes us live.”

“It is no accident that, in ancient times many peoples used priestesses (think, for example, of the Greek Sibyls) to enter into relationship with the will of the gods.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”