...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

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

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.