Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

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 prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform

Insanity is hereditary you get it from your children.

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.