"You can't always expect God to make things easy."
John Bul Dau, Sudanese "Lost Boy" and focus of the new documentary God Grew Tired of Us, as quoted in People magazine. When civil war broke out in the Sudan in 1984, Dau, then 12, fled government fighting by walking more than a thousand miles to refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. "We chewed the grass," said Dau. "We drank mud and urine. It was a very bad life."

"I prayed and I talked to God and I found an apartment. I always felt that God has his hand on me."
Tory Lewis, a formerly homeless mother of one, on how the Lord helped her move out of a shelter, as quoted in Florida's News Leader. Because Lewis believes that God has been guiding her life, one would also have to assume that God pushed her onto the streets in the first place.

"God chose me to be His servant. There is such a thing as freedom of speech.''
San Mateo, Calif., resident Estrella Benavides, who has taken to painting on her house and car messages she recieves from God, as quoted in the San Franciso Chronicle. The 48-year-old woman began painting God's words on her house (see picture below) a year ago, around the time that her husband left her and she lost custody of her son. San Mateo city officials have threatend her with fines of up to $10,00 a day if she does not stop painting the messages on her house, an action that prompted the above quote. And last month as part of a religious fast, she had two pins inserted through her lips to prevent herself from eating.

"Listen, I believe in prayer. I pray every night."
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on how he plans to end the war in Iraq if he were president, as quoted in Vanity Fair. Keep that up, John. It's working so far.

“The Lord didn’t say nuclear, but I do believe it’ll be something like that--that’ll be a mass killing, possibly millions of people, major cities injured.”
Kook preacher Pat Robinson's prediction that the United States will fall victim to a terrorist attack in the latter half of 2007, as quoted on The 700 Club, Robinson's Home Shopping Network for other religious kooks. Robinson makes annual predictions based on his conversations with God. Not all of his prognostications come to pass, just like those contained in the Bible.