Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

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]

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.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.