Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

How fortunate, then, that we serve a God who quickens the dead. Who breathes life into the lifeless. Do you not think that a God who formed man out of dust can form a new creation in you?

One fails forward toward success.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.