Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.