The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.