Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

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.

Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds

You have to learn to love yourself. How can others appreciate what you have to offer if you don’t value yourself?

If you have hooked legs, wear big decolte.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.