It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

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.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

Keep going, because there is nothing worse in this world than to stop. Simply keep flying ❤️

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.