Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it’s because they’re demonstrating something I’d rather not see in myself.

 

I realized that sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.

 

It’s about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.

 

But we’ve lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.

 

the holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.

 

the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

 

I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

 

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

 

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

 

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

 

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

 

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

 

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

 

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

 

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

 

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

 

 

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”