And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.