Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

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.

Love has only feelings, don't seek meanings.

Yo Mama's so fat her butt cheeks have different area codes.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Music should make you feel good.