Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

Simply put: love does.

If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.

One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.