Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

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.

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 can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

A world of made is not a world of born

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.