Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans.

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

It's a perfect day for letting go.