If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.