Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Faith is the collateral of heaven. It is what you use to trade with in heaven.