“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.” — Franz Kafka Quote

“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”

“Islam tends its adherents down the garden path to the plentiful paradise.”

“I can trust a God who suffers with me.”

“I'm Resting in the Lord”

“It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.”

“In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what they thought usually turned out to be wrong. For another thing, I was insecure enough about my own faith, such as it was, to resent other people telling me what they thought I believed and why they thought I believed it. So I tried to hear what my friends say about joining their loved ones after death without assuming I knew exactly what they meant.”

“This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.”