It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.