"If you tell me that I have to write the story of my life, I would be very quick to tell you that God has already written it. What I have to do is to quit playing editor."

"If I understand death as a temporary loss that is irrevocably swallowed up by the eternal existence within which it occurs, I suddenly realize that it is the death of something that enriches the life of everything."

"You can live without God, but to do so is to live without living."

"It was at the point where I was convinced of my own death that God finally convinced me of His life. And I stand amazed that my death birthed His life."

"A road never defines a journey. Rather, it is defined by the heart that has decided to walk the road."

"I cannot walk in obedience to what I think. Rather, I must walk in obedience to Who God is."

"To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me."

"Sometimes life has to strip us in order to save us."

"My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’."

"To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."