Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

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.

When you´re lazy, you find lots of interesting excuses.

On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.