- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
- Drafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020