By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.