When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

If I have relegated God to a fantasy born of frightened men ill-suited to face life, I would suggest that this is far more the story of frightened men who wish God to be a fantasy because they are ill-suited to face Him.

If we’re saying ‘no’ to God, have we considered what we’re saying ‘yes’ to?

If we rebel against the God who created us, there’s not much left to rebel against. And maybe that’s the point.

We will know that our rebellion against God has reached a peak when we spend our lives attempting to force failed alternatives to work despite their failures. And if we persist, this ‘peak’ of rebellion will become the valley our of demise.

If you’re going to ignore God, at least be mature enough to take responsibility for what’s going to happen after you do that.

More often than not, it’s not that we don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that we don’t want to.

It seems that we are not in a state of disbelief regarding the existence of God. Rather, we are in a state of rebellion against His existence. But have we not yet come to understand that in the end, that kind of rebellion is a rebellion against our own existence?

Mankind is on a mission to free itself from a God whose mission is to free us from ourselves. And if our mission prevails, we won’t.