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We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural.

The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.

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

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

Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

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

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

The strongest character in a story isn't the hero, it's the guide.

In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

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

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children.

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

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

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

I know a little of why there is blood in my body, pumping life into my limbs and thought into my brain. I am wanted by God.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting

The risk of being known is also the decision to be criticized by some.

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.

People attack out of fear.

Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.

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

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

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Unless we're honest with each other, we can't connect. We can't be intimate.

Love makes us both strong and weak at the same time. I

We have to have positive male role models.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

God has spoken, and when God speaks, the majority has spoken.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

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.

But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

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

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

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

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

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

G. K. Chesterton says chess players go crazy, not poets. I think he is right.

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

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.

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

I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

We learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed.

The reality is this, though: a healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship.

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

Tell Me I can't and I will

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

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

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

My faith teaches me that the path to join souls in love must of necessity involve a crucifixion, and I think there's a metaphor in there for marriage.

And stories are all about conflict.

What do you want your marriage to look like? he repeated. I'd never thought about it. I'd spent countless

Work on your character and a good life will come to you.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

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

It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.

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

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

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

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

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

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live.

The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.