We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

There are no musically untalented people.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic.