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.

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?

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.