Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

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

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

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.