You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.