Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.