In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

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.”

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

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.