“Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement. It's called feeling alive.”

“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”

“He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy.”

“As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.”

“What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and calling them forward, into greater and greater shalom and respect and rights and peace and dignity and equality. It's as if human history were progressing along a trajectory, an arc, a continuum; and sacred history is the capturing and recording of those moments when people became aware that they were being called and drawn and pulled forward by the divine force and power and energy that gives life to everything.”

“When you feel small in a God made world, it's called realization and when you feel small in a man made world, it's called exploitation.”