We owe God our lives for the few or many years we live, and we have the duty to worship Him and do as He commands us. That’s what we’re here on earth for, to be in God’s service, to do God’s bidding.

we can recognize our anger at life’s unfairness, our instinctive compassion at seeing people suffer, as coming from God who teaches us to be angry at injustice and to feel compassion for the afflicted. Instead of feeling that we are opposed to God, we can feel that our indignation is God’s anger at unfairness working through us, that when we cry ou

suffering and death in someone close to us bring us to explore the limits of our capacity for strength and love and cheer-fulness, if it leads us to discover sources of consolation we never knew before, then we make the person into a witness for the affirmation of life rather than its rejection.

“God, see what is happening to me. Can You help me?”

She is experiencing fear and fatigue, but it comes out as impatience and anger.

If we are bound to do good, then we are not free to choose it.

Nature is morally blind, without values. It churns along, following its own laws, not caring who or what gets in the way.

Could it be that God does not cause the bad things that happen to us? Could it be that He doesn’t decide which families shall give birth to a handicapped child, that He did not single out Ron to be crippled by a bullet or Helen by a degenerative disease, but rather that He stands ready to help them and us cope with our tragedies if we could only ge

Where do you get the strength to go on, when you have used up all of your own strength? Where do you turn for patience when you have run out of patience, when you have been more patient for more years than anyone should be asked to be, and the end is nowhere in sight? I believe that God gives us strength and patience and hope, renewing our spiritua