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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or s...more

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

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...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the su...more

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My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like ...more

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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and...more

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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I...more

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We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them,...more

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Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next...more

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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

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There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of th...more

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When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.

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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with...more

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Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells lik...more