The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

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.

When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

I am stronger than my trials.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.