Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate 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.

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.

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere