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

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.