Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!