The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

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