It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.