Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

Bitterness is captivity.

Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.

Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.