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.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

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.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.