Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

Start thinking for yourself, because if you don’t someone else will.

Faith is the thing that asks us to set aside reason for the God who supersedes it.

The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.

At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.