When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

The art of life is to show your hand.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

Keep those who truly love you close at all times.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.