Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.