Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.