“The belief that becomes truth for me...is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.”

“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.”

“Faith is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things...with blazing serene hope.”

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms...proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our fully potential.”

“Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.”

“There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”

“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

“All things are lessons God would have you learn, and the best students get the hardest tests.”

“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

“If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment.”