If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!