...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

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.

Nothing moves unless you are determined to push

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain, you must either be a god or a corpse.

Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

If you #‎ fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your #‎ success . You can only know the sweet taste of #‎ victory after many bitter struggles.