The definition of living is not based on the number of years spent, but on the degree to which we’ve spent ourselves in the living of them.

Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Because you feel full doesn’t mean that you are.

I expend my days relentlessly attempting to design my life in a manner that is designed to meet the needs in my life. Yet, God did not design life to do that. Rather, He designed life to direct us to Him so that He could do that.

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

Pain says that if we’re alive enough to feel pain, we’re alive enough to feel joy. It’s just a question of whether we believe that there’s space for both.

To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself.

The gift in writing is not the accolades of having written. It's the peace of knowing that a life was changed because of what you wrote.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.