God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

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

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.