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

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

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

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.