Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don’t like

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.