“Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

“Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.”

“Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.”

“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.”

“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”