At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.