“Have you ever noticed that just before something big happens in life, there is a crisis of some sort?”

“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.”

“I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.”

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it — and if we cannot, they it is absurd and impossible and therefore nonexistent.”

“We sometimes have a tendency to bring God to our level, rather than allowing God to enlighten us by bringing us to God's level.”

“It is our tendency to look at people as opposed to looking into them.”

“I think in threes.”