I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.