...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

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

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.