Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.