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.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.