Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.