I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

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.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

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

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.