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.”

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.