What a comfort to know that God is a poet. - Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

"(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then."

"God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine."