“If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.”

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.

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

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

It hurts me when seeing a girl cry. I want to comfort them as long as I canor I’ll end up crying too.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn’t laziness or bad luck, it’s comfort.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Being comfortable is over-rated.