We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.

In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.

I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Now I believe in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I believe that we are in Christ, we are hid with Christ in God, and we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. So in essence, for Satan to get at me he has to go through the Trinity.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.