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

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

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

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

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.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.