Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

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.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." His voice trailed off into a wisper as I drifted off.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Don't throw yourself at someone because of who you think they are, throw yourself at someone because you know you're both in it for the memories.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent of smart phones say they own an American.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).