We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.