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

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.

Prayer, when it is offered in the right way, redeems people from isolation. It assures them that they need not feel alone and abandoned.

We could not live without gravity, but that means we have to live with the dangers it causes. Laws of nature treat everyone alike.

forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all.

Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, in which he suggested that the primary purpose of religion at its earliest level was not to put people in touch with God, but to put them in touch with one another.

In order to let us be free, in order to let us be human, God has to leave us free to choose to do right or to do wrong. If we are not free to choose evil, then we are not free to choose good either.

Survivors feel guilty for still being alive while a loved one is dead. They feel guilty when they think of all the kind words they never got around to saying to the deceased, and the good things they never found time to do for her.

We cannot ask God to go back and rewrite the past.