The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

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.

There is nothing more compelling than another person.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No, " though all the world say "Yes.

Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Play every game as if it's your last one