Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.

As the epic film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.Yes, Safiya the protagonist is distantly related to Noah...

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.