If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

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.

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that very few people have.

First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.