"Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life."
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"You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic"
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"Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives."
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"Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back."
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"Leave. Roll the world around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful world, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."
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"And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude."
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"I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on."
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"The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love."
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"I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it."
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"The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom."
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"Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either."
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"Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us."
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"Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective."
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"We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them."
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"We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs."
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"I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards."
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"God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers."
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"Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible."
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