We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.