These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

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.

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

LOGAN: I think you spend too much time believing what other people see, rather than what you think.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.