We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.