I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

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

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.