“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.”

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.

That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.

The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.

I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.

When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.

I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.