It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

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.

The spirit of light is the soul of love.

Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?