Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.