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.

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.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.