The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.