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

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.

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

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?

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.

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth.

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.