How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Time is what the clock says.

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.