Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

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.

It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself.

My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.