Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

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.

No one's book is perfect.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.