The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.