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

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.