When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.