The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

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.

Peace is a fresh flower.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Unto us Saviour is born at Christmas.The love and light of the World.

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul