If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
Great stories move through fear.
I used love like money, but love doesn’t work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it’s enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
I’m not a pastor; I’ve never been on staff at a church.
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It’s written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn’t, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It’s a discipline. So that’s definitely different. It’s part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn’t preachy.
I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It’s like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.