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.

...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.

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.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

The Law of Attraction is the Law of Love.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.