We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.