Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.