Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.