The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.