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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

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