Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side..

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive..

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary….

Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had….

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You ha….

Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others..

The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the wo….

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things..

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our….

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story..

After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leavi….

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue..

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others..

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis t….

In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back….

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it..

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones..

Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and h….

Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows,….

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. A….

Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,….