Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

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