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.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.