Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.

If you somehow believe that you can free yourself from yourself, you will spend the rest of your life decorating the prison cell that you’ve been living in all of your life.

I hike up hills and call them mountains. However, God descends to mountains and calls them stepping stones to heaven. And while the immensity of it all scares me a bit, I think I prefer God’s point of view.

If I take this imagination of mine and multiply it a thousand times over, even then I have yet to touch even the barest hem of heaven.

Real writing is about changing lives for eternity rather than entertaining a life for a moment.

To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.

For us, tomorrow is a hope. For God, it’s His invitation to a promise.

My faith compels me to build a life in the expanse of what I can’t see, rather than erect some small hovel in the tiny space of that which I can.

This life is a point of departure to a place where there will be no departures.