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.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.