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.

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.

It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.