My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

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.

God knows you very well

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

Kids get influenced by other kids.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?