Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

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

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.