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.

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.