We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

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 reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.