The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.