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.

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.