A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

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