I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

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

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.