Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

...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.

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.

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.

Teamwork, amazing outcome.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.