“I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.”

You can quit anything on a Thursday.

Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.

Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.

God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.

God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.

Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn’t break it down piece by piece, stage by stage.

At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life–at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Women right now, we can’t make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.