You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

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.

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.