What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.