“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”

“Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories lik...”

“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the i...”

“Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your jo...”

“There is hope in forgiveness”

“Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacri...”

“Youre saying you dont want me?Aw hell. No, Im saying this is a bad idea.Youre the king of bad ideas, he reminds me. At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.”

“I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us. ”

“None of Us is as Good as All of Us.”

“Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.”