I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.