I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.