I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

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

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.