Steven James

“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into…

— Steven James

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who…

— Steven James

“Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.”

— Steven James

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out…

— Steven James

“Do you know how to turn someone into a monster?” “I’m not sure. No.” “Let him be himself without restraint.”

— Steven James

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to…

— Steven James

“Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.”

— Steven James

“Part of living is acknowledging people’s pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it’s always nighttime in…

— Steven James

“Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss”

— Steven James

Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon…

— Steven James

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

— Steven James

“I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me…

— Steven James

God dances with the outcast.

— Steven James

“Well, I don’t know for sure if it’s still there, but when we lived in Minnesota, we would drive through Janesville to…

— Steven James

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the…

— Steven James

For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how…

— Steven James

“Hatred is the result of beliefs. It is the fruit that falls from the tree of faith.”

— Steven James

If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can…

— Steven James

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

— Steven James

Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to…

— Steven James

“Well, there was a Chinese farmer whose stallion ran away one day across the border to where a group of nomads lived.…

— Steven James

God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only…

— Steven James

“What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's…

— Steven James

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

— Steven James

“Daniel was a little slow getting out of the locker room afterward and was one of the last guys to head to…

— Steven James