It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

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

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.