History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.