I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

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.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.