Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

Prayer turns theology into experience.