If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.