“If you’re surrounded by greatness – take notes, pay attention, and ask questions.”
― Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
― Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
“death is not the enemy; snakes are. And cheese: it is addictive and irresistible. I have had three kinds so far today.”
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“Niels Bohr wrote, ‘The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.”
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“Jesus was a rabbi, schooled by rabbis, who thought like rabbis. Rabbis, upon being asked a question by a disciple, usually answer with a paradoxical inquiry or a story. This can be annoying and time-consuming for those of us looking for neat, simple answers. But truth is too wild and complex to be contained in one answer, so Jesus often responded with a question or a parable.”
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
― Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“Dignified or not, believable or not, ours is a God perpetually on bended knee, doing everything it takes to convince stubborn and petulant children that they are seen and loved. It is no more beneath God to speak to us using poetry, proverb, letters, and legend than it is for a mother to read storybooks to her daughter at bedtime. This is who God is. This is what God does.”
― Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
― Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
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