If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.