Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.