This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

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.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.