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.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

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

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

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