It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

All they had to do was let go, and they'd be free. But they held on.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward.

You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.