Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

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.

What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide?

One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.