True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.