God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Reading is more important to me than eating.