In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

If you are not thinking differently, you are not exercising your freedom.

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

The place where music and worship meet is like a divine mystery of sorts.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I still believe that if we stand together with courage in our convictions and love for America, our best days are ahead of us.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.