There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

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