Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

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.

A true friend is the one who knowseverything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelingsyou woke up in them they will never forget!

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

time never heals everything in life, but memories do

Create and nurture a mindset that works for you rather than against you.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.