Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.