What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

Church isn’t perfect. It’s practice.

And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there's a certain texture to them that we just don't have anymore. In fact I think I've been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while...

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.