But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

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.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Emotionally I'm about 13.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.