Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'