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.”

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

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

...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.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.