Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.