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.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

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

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.