Great stories move through fear.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

We have to have positive male role models.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

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

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

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

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

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