Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

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.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

All but God is changing day by day.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.