I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.