If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.