I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

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.

OrPhAnS, are the one who has no parents, But have many parents.But having ones parents is more valuable than the other having many parents(it doesn't depend on numbers, but the feelings matters).

... a supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women.... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.