The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

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.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.