Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.