The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.