For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

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.

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.