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

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

We have to have positive male role models.

You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.