And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

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

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.