Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

The end of this life is not the end of life.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.