Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

I don't need a man in my life.

People here will date goats. But no one wants to date a goat wearing Google glass.

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.