If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.