I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

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

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.