Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

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

I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?