Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

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.

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it.

The best part of a party is getting dressed to go.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.