Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

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.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.