If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.