When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

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

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.