What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

Love gives you eyes.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.