I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.