Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

I am especially fond of you.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.