It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”