“Hope begins in the dark.”
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
“Joy is the best makeup.”
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”
“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.”
“Help is the sunny side of control.”
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
“There is almost nothing outside you that will help in any kind of lasting way unless you are waiting for a donor organ.”
“Expectations are resentments under construction.”
“Light reveals us to ourselves, which is not always so great if you find yourself in a big disgusting mess.”
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.”
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
“Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts.”
“Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck.”
“The most powerful sermon in the world is two words: Me too.”
“To love yourself as you are is a miracle.”
“This is the great surprise of grace: it can happen to anyone.”
“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
“We don’t have to try to figure everything out all at once.”
“Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing: that love is bigger than any grim, bleak crap anyone can throw at us.”
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
“Life is about showing up.”
“Don’t let yourself forget that you’ve been divinely placed here.”
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness, and letting it be there until some light returns.”
“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path.”
“If you keep your heart open, it will heal.”
“Hope is not what we find in evidence; it’s what we become in action.”
“We can’t understand the ways of the divine.”
“Nothing outside of you will ever meet all your needs.”
“Loving thoughts bring loving action.”
“You are loved and chosen exactly the way you are.”
“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already chosen.”
“Life can’t be fixed, but it can be carried.”
“No one knows what they’re doing, and that’s on purpose.”
“When all else fails, follow instructions.”
“Earth is forgiveness school.”
“What’s saving your life today?”
“You can’t fix everything, and that’s okay.”
“God has no magic wands or high-voltage defibrillators, just the breathing out of one weary person into the frailty of another.”
“The worst things that happened to you, the best things that happened—they cannot be distinguished from each other.”
“It’s a holy mess we’re all in.”
“Some changes look negative on the surface but create space for something new.”
“Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.”
“Hope is an orientation of the spirit.”
“We are saved by finding that one person who can listen and show us our own courage.”
“You’re never too old to change your priorities.”
“We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.”