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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.
The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.