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.

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

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