A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent, /the love misplaced, /has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

Your Purpose Should Dictate How You Spend Your Time

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

Adron! Don’t you hurt him. (Kiara) I’m not going to hurt him, Mom. I’m going to kill him. (Young Adron)

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.